Equifax directed consumers to fake phishing site for weeks
You can now add another blunder to the already long list of Equifax’s missteps in the wake of the massive breach it announced earlier this month: the company has been …
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Equifax breach happened because of a missed patch
The attackers who breached Equifax managed to do so by exploiting a vulnerability in its US website, the company has finally confirmed. The vulnerability in question was …
Equifax attackers got in through an Apache Struts flaw?
Have the attackers responsible for the Equifax data breach exploited a vulnerability in Apache Struts, a popular open source framework for developing web applications, to …
How Equifax failed miserably at handling its data breach
A data breach, as conventional wisdom goes, can happen to anyone, but how an organization handles the fallout is what shows us if they care about users at all – and …
Equifax breach: Sensitive info, SSNs of 44% of U.S. consumers accessed by attackers
Equifax, one of the three largest American credit agencies, has announced that it has suffered a “cybersecurity incident” affecting some 143 million U.S. …
Fraudsters loot W-2 data stored by Equifax
Equifax, one of the big-three US credit bureaus, has been targeted by fraudsters that search for W-2 data and use it for claiming fraudulent tax returns. But the company …
